The Riptide Movement are hoping to make waves with their new single as they turn their attention to environmental issues.

Launching the Sky Ocean Rescue Initiative this week, frontman Mal Tuohy spoke to The Beat about plastic pollution, the digitalisation of music and a potential new album release in 2019.

The Dublin rockers are currently shooting their own documentary about the impact of plastic pollution on the environment, which will be released once a week online during July before a longer one-hour documentary is released.

They will also release two new singles, Plastic Oceans and What Will The Kids Say, in Dalkey at the start of their new tour.

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Mal said: “When we wrote these songs last year, we wanted to add our voice to the movement because it’s something we’re passionate about. We didn’t want to just talk about it, we really wanted to see the real effect it’s having and that’s what we’re doing with the documentary.”

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The All Works Out hitmaker spoke of being lucky enough to travel around the world with the band but getting to see the damage plastic has caused to the environment really impacted them.

“You hear about whales being beached with plastic bags being found in their stomachs and it’s awful”

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Filming their documentary saw the band take a dip in Sandycove and see not only the plastic that litters the seabed, but the fish and other aquatic life that it damages.

The Riptide Movement

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He said: “We got to see how beautiful it is down there on the ocean floor, we saw majestic fish and all these seaweeds but then you see the discarded fishing gear and all the plastic that has rained down from above.

“We were talking a marine biologist down in Sligo IT who specialises in microorganisms and nano organisms, and she was able to show us plankton.

“They were magnified 500 times and you could see the plastic in the microorganism, like a tar spreading through them.”